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TikTok is supposed to be a fun and silly app with lip syncs, challenges, dances and funny videos. However, like every other social media platform, there is a darker side to it.<\/p>\n
TikTok users are adding the text ‘I had pasta tonight’ to their videos and it has nothing to do with food or dinner.<\/p>\n
What the statement often means is that the person in the video is feeling\u00a0depressed, anxious or experiencing suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n
According to data from the CDC, Generation Z is the most at-risk generation for mental illness. Business Insider<\/a> reports that the suicide rate for people aged 10 to 24 has increased by 56% between 2007 and 2017.<\/p>\n Social media contributes greatly to depression. Statistically, Generation Z is more likely to be on social media than not, and a study by Guildford Press<\/a>\u00a0concluded that there is a link between social media and poor mental and emotional health.<\/p>\n Sadly, young people are looking to social media platforms and strangers for help and reassurance, rather than reaching out locally to someone they trust. Whether that be a trusting family member, friend or someone close to them.<\/p>\n One TikTok<\/a>\u00a0captioned \u201cTold my mom about my favorite pasta recipe and she made it for dinner tonight\u201d received over 3 million views and 60,000 comments \u2014 all of which can be summed up by one user\u2019s comment: \u201cThis comment section is my new therapy. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re so loved,\u201d one person replied.<\/p>\n \u201cYou haven\u2019t come this far to only come this far,\u201d another posted.<\/p>\n \u201cI love you all so much it\u2019s beyond words,\u201d the poster commented. \u201cThank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n There are numerous ‘code’ phrases that are used by young people on social media to express their emotional well being. As a parent, I like to keep up with what is ‘trending’ as a cause for concern, so I can recognize these signs, whether it were to apply to my own children or others close to my family.<\/p>\n Captions like \u201cI finished my shampoo and conditioner at the same time\u201d serve as a code for help also.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call the\u00a0<\/em>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-273-8255.\u00a0<\/em>Click here<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to learn about the warning signs of suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TikTok is supposed to be a fun and silly app with lip syncs, challenges, dances and funny videos. However, like every other social media platform, there is a darker side to it. TikTok users are adding the text ‘I had pasta tonight’ to their videos and it has nothing to do with food or dinner. What the statement often means is that the person in the video is feeling\u00a0depressed, anxious or experiencing suicidal thoughts. According to data from the CDC, Generation Z is the most at-risk generation for mental illness. Business Insider reports that the suicide rate for people aged <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":71982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[10217,29314,15885,18288,9060,20324,31751,9254,9195,20710,31752,8833,9194,9188,31753,13621,17527,24228,11096,31754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71981"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}